Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) is a collaborative digital health hub that addresses unmet health and care needs of populations in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region of the UK.
NortHFutures funds and facilitates responsible cross-sector health-tech design research, innovation, training, and knowledge exchange.
Coming up: Join our Public Showcase Event on 11th June 2026 in Newcastle
The NortHFutures hub brings together:
Funded by UKRI/EPSRC until July 31st 2027, NortHFutures has established a pioneering ecosystem that empowers people to engage and lead in digital health initiatives.
We take a community-centred approach and are committed to humanising health-tech by championing equity, participation, and investment across the region.
Our main focus is to deepen research involvement in digital health research by the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.
We practice participant-led user research and evaluation of tools and resources to strive for the design of useable and useful technologies and services.
Free event at Newcastle Helix on June 11th 2026 We held a public showcase event in June to share the outcomes from digital health research and training initiatives funded through the NortHFutures Hub. The event was free and took place at a fully accessible venue in the centre of Newcastle
Director's update The NortHFutures team has had a busy start to 2026, delivering many of our funded research and training initiatives whilst planning upcoming events. The funded teams have been carefully documenting their work in order to share practical insights from taking a community-centred approach to digital
On Friday last week the NortHFutures delivered the annual Digital Health Symposium with our NHS partners. This was the fourth event of its kind and the second that NortHFutures has supported with Health Data Research (HDR) UK. This year’s symposium theme was 'Future Ready: Digital Health for Tomorrow’
